A lot of clever people have got everything except judgement
CLEMENT ATTLEEWinston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.
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If you begin to consider yourself solely responsible to a political party, you’re half-way to a dictatorship.
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I am pleased to see from the laughter on the Ministerial benches that there is no implication on their part to take Sir Oswald Mosley too seriously. It can easily be seen to-day that this idea of a dictator is gradually falling down.
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The individual is sacrificed to the idol of the German Leader, German State or the German race.
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There is a denial of the value of the individual.
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Winston Churchill – fifty per cent genius, fifty per cent bloody fool.
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It’s nice to keep in touch – besides, it’s the only place in London where you can park a car.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
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A period of silence on your part would be welcome.
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Charity is a cold grey loveless thing.
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I believe that the foundation of democratic liberty is a willingness to believe that other people may perhaps be wiser than oneself.
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I am a diffident man. I find it hard to carry on a conversation.
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It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.
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The Peace Treaties must be scrapped … I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy.
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We have absolutely abandoned any idea of nationalist loyalty.
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